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Open AccessAnalysis of aged microplastics: a review
Microplastics are emerging contaminants that undergo progressive aging under environmental conditions such as sunlight irradiation, mechanical forces, temperature variations, and the presence of biological org...
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Open AccessLong-term outcomes and prognosis of neuroendocrine neoplasms of the head and neck: a cohort from a single institution
Neuroendocrine neoplasm is a rare cancer of head and neck. This study aimed to evaluate clinical features, treatment outcomes, and prognostic factors of neuroendocrine neoplasm of head and neck treated at a si...
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Open AccessDevelo** a novel causal inference algorithm for personalized biomedical causal graph learning using meta machine learning
Modeling causality through graphs, referred to as causal graph learning, offers an appropriate description of the dynamics of causality. The majority of current machine learning models in clinical decision sup...
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Open AccessAssessment of secular trends of three major gynecologic cancers burden and attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2019: an age period cohort analysis
This study aims to assess the long-term trends in the burden of three major gynecologic cancers(GCs) stratified by social-demographic status across the world from 1990 to 2019. To assess the trends of risk fac...
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Open AccessCharacteristics of temporal variability of long-duration bursts of high-energy radiation associated with thunderclouds on the Tibetan plateau
From 1998 to 2017, neutron monitors located at an altitude of 4300 m on the Tibetan plateau detected 127 long-duration bursts of high-energy radiation in association with thunderclouds. These bursts typically ...
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Open AccessA membrane associated tandem kinase from wild emmer wheat confers broad-spectrum resistance to powdery mildew
Crop wild relatives offer natural variations of disease resistance for crop improvement. Here, we report the isolation of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance gene Pm36, originated from wild emmer wheat, that...
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Open AccessEngineering a transposon-associated TnpB-ωRNA system for efficient gene editing and phenotypic correction of a tyrosinaemia mouse model
Transposon-associated ribonucleoprotein TnpB is known to be the ancestry endonuclease of diverse Cas12 effector proteins from type-V CRISPR system. Given its small size (408 aa), it is of interest to examine w...
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Parallelized ADMM with General Objectives for Deep Learning
While considerable efforts have been dedicated to improving models that employ regularized functions, the direct solution of non-convex models using most stochastic gradient optimization algorithms poses signi...
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Synthesis and ultraviolet/aggregation-induced emission investigation of novel tetraphenylvinyl hydrazone derivatives: efficient multimodal chemosensors for fluoride ion
Herein, three novel tetraphenylethylene hydrazone chemosensors TC12, SC16, and TC16 are prepared for the selective detection of F−. Two NH and one C=N units are incorporated into the sensors for better colorimetr...
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Exploration and comparison of diverse approaches for integrating syntactic knowledge into AMR parsing
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing aims to translate sentences to semantic AMR graphs and has recently been empowered by pre-trained Transformer models (e.g., BART). We argue that explicitly encodin...
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Open AccessLarval secretions of parasitoid wasps are new effectors that impair host immune defences
Parasitoid wasps belong to a remarkably successful group of biological control agents. To ensure effective parasitism, parasitoid wasps have evolved various effectors to modulate host immune responses, such as...
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Open AccessImproving explainable AI with patch perturbation-based evaluation pipeline: a COVID-19 X-ray image analysis case study
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked interest in develo** explainable AI (XAI) methods for clinical decision support systems, especially in translational research. Although using XAI ...
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Open AccessEarly and fair COVID-19 outcome risk assessment using robust feature selection
Personalized medicine plays an important role in treatment optimization for COVID-19 patient management. Early treatment in patients at high risk of severe complications is vital to prevent death and ventilato...
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Fine map** of two recessive powdery mildew resistance genes from Aegilops tauschii accession CIae8
Two recessive powdery mildew resistance loci pmAeCIae8_2DS and pmAeCIae8_7DS from Aegilops tauschii were mapped and two synthesized hexaploid wheat lines were developed by distant hybridization.
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Protein@PP-Zn nanocomplex assembled by coordination of zinc ions used for intracellular protein delivery
In recent years, intracellular delivery of protein drugs has attracted great attention, and polymer-based systems have been extensively exploited to develop efficient and safe carriers. However, efficient intr...
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A Federated Framework for Edge Computing Devices with Collaborative Fairness and Adversarial Robustness
Federated learning is a distributed machine learning framework for edge computing devices that provides several benefits, such as eliminating over-fitting and protecting privacy. However, the majority of feder...
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Extracting optimal explanations for ensemble trees via automated reasoning
Ensemble trees are a popular machine learning model which often yields high prediction performance when analysing structured data. Although individual small decision trees are deemed explainable by nature, an ...
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Open AccessEvidence for lunar tide effects in Earth’s plasmasphere
Tides are universal and affect spatially distributed systems, ranging from planetary to galactic scales. In the Earth–Moon system, effects caused by lunar tides were reported in the Earth’s crust, oceans, neut...
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Open AccessSalinity and high pH reduce denitrification rates by inhibiting denitrifying gene abundance in a saline-alkali soil
Denitrification, as the main nitrogen (N) removal process in farmland drainage ditches in coastal areas, is significantly affected by saline-alkali conditions. To elucidate the effects of saline-alkali conditi...
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Effect of Accelerated Fe-Rich Precipitation Induced by Ag Addition on the Microstructure and Comprehensive Properties of Cu–10 Wt Pct Fe Alloys
In this study, the effect of accelerated Fe-rich precipitation caused by Ag addition on the refinement of solidified microstructure and the improvement of electrical, mechanical, and magnetic properties of Cu–...
